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Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: It is astonishing that we again face a national transport strike during the Minister's tenure. We went through this previously with Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann. Eventually, a settlement was reached. The very hard-working staff with their five trade unions - Unite, SIPTU, the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, the Technical Engineering and Electrical Union, TEEU, and the National...

Other Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I understand Deputy Cowen is taking Question No. 6.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: As Deputy Cowen is not yet present, we will move to Question No. 2 and come back to No. 1.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: We will now take Question No. 1.

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: While I note the Tánaiste's comments about the plans in place for the period up to 2021, it is a simple fact that this Government and the two previous Administrations allowed community policing to wither. Other stakeholders, specifically Dublin City Council, need to be mobilised. Dublin City Council management has a very poor estate management record for its 26,000 or 27,000 housing...

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I welcome the youth employment support scheme announced by the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, especially as 700 young people aged under 25 years of age are signing on in my constituency.

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: As I stated, the Hallowe'en festival often lasts for several weeks in parts of my constituency. I urge the Government to ensure that families and communities are completely safe during this period and that we have the numbers of community gardaí we need.

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. He is very kind.

Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: I have raised the issue of serious public disorder and anti-social and criminal behaviour in districts of Dublin Bay North with the Minister for Justice and Equality several times since June. I was responding to great distress of constituents who sent me photographs and video recordings of cars being burnt out in broad daylight. I was told of appalling anti-social and criminal behaviour as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the affordable housing scheme or assistance to lower income persons and families to purchase a home that his Department is examining; the reason no such proposals were brought forward in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45100/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (26 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if each family in family hubs has received a Leap card for the 2017/2018 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43444/17]

Tracker Mortgages: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: This morning Deputy Healy noted the litany of appalling behaviour by key banks and building societies, including the DIRT scandal, the outrageous insurance and unit trust linked mortgage scandal which many people have now forgotten, the full rescue of AIB by the taxpayer in the 1980s and after 2008 the blanket guarantee of the main Irish banks and building societies after years of totally...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have completed an apprenticeship programme in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; his plans for an apprenticeship degree programme as in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44814/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (25 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places that will be available on the ten new apprenticeship programmes announced in budget 2018; when they will commence; and his plans for an apprenticeship degree programme as in the UK. [44815/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Programme of Support (24 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons for not repaying the €3.5 billion UK bailout loan early; the net refinancing position of the national debt in each of the years 2018 to 2021 including the refinancing of the UK loan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44542/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU-IMF Programme of Support (24 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the schedule of refinancing the national debt in each of the years 2018 to 2020 following the recent buyback of the IMF, Swedish and Danish loans from the financial crash era; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44541/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Social Insurance Payments (24 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 54. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department is ensuring that all construction companies pay PRSI and social insurance contributions for all construction employees and that main contractors for State contracts including PPPs must be fully legally responsible for those contributions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44627/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Resources (24 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional personnel and resources, including the purchase of two additional mobile X-ray scanners, for the Revenue Commissioners after budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45027/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire (24 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a report (details supplied) on the Stardust tragedy submitted to his Department on 17 October 2017 will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44957/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (24 Oct 2017)

Tommy Broughan: 190. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if extra regular Garda patrols will be allocated to an area (details supplied) in Dublin 13; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45019/17]